Sanskrit-Chinese lexicon being Fan Fan Yu, the first known lexicon of its kind dated to AD 517
New Delhi: International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan, 2007. First edition, 4to, pp. xiv, 269, [1]; parallel text in Kanji and romanized with Japanese and English definitions; publisher's blue cloth gilt; fine in fine dust jacket. "Fan Fan Yu (Jap. Hombongou) is the earliest known Sanskrit-Chinese lexicon, classified according to subject. It gives the Sanskrit word in Chinese transcription, followed by variant transcriptions, correction of the transcription included by 'should say,' meaning and finally its source." Item #68705
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